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Random word generator says go out and juggle. Insists by university. I don't wanna. The damn app makes me feel good about myself. Professional. Talented. It was fucking talking me up!

So, I go. It's a real nice campus, ASU. Mostly empty because it's Sunday. But I'm looking for a spot and I see a gaggle of people. Graduates, maybe, but there were a ton of girls in white dresses that went maybe two inches below their vagina. And I don't stare at the eighty pairs of barely legal legs, but I see them, I panic, I look away, but in the process, my attention coordination snapped to some flesh. She saw. She said, "Hiiii!" Cruelly. Mockingly. Now I'm out of whack. I'm dysregulated. Emotions surge. I can't think straight. My mind has been taken over.

NOTHING SEXUAL! Fucking David's dick is small in the sculpture because he is about to face Goliath. He is afraid. I am afraid of young people, because while I have done the work to not stare or even think of that shit unless I'm alone by myself without visual aid (except the occasional transgender mommies), because I know how much it ruled me, my sexuality.

I don't want to be an animal. I have worked hard so I do not have to worry about myself, but instead I have this impediment in my life, where I cannot function because a sudden fucking babe of my preferences will completely destabilize me in anxiety and fear.

Women as a whole have been associated with disease n death because my mother had AIDS. It's primordial in my consciousness, the fear of being attracted to a youthful feminine form. I'm not ashamed anymore, because I have demöbiated the sin within me so the fire of pursuit and intention and attachment to desire is gone.

But I am afraid, as when I was biking back, shell-shocked and eyes locked as forward as possible, I passed a couple in the crosswalk. She said, "ew," in regards to seeing my bright pink tanktop, to which he responded, "yea, he's a pedophile." And that took me out of it. Made me mad. Hurt. Judged. No one cares I'm not a bad person. I might be killed, randomly, for what I think about when I jack off. I breathe. And I'm ok. Mind is a flurry. Can't function.

Writing is easy; it better be how much I've busted my balls! But I can't function in society. I know I will be with everybody for eternity, and I genuinely care about every being, even if I lose my shit sometimes, and sometimes people need to hear something, but I have literally negative desire to do anything regretful.

Those college kids were still friggin' kids; I have to forgive the girl for her remark and shade, because she knows not what she does. And that is why I want to help the young men who likewise do not know what they do, who might be in the process of ruining their lives. I saw a mural on the way there, "Education is not illegal." Well, all I want to do is educate, make something of myself helping people. And I'm scared out of my mind to juggle at a college campus.

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[–] python@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Questions need words to be answered, but I'll answer what I think you must be curious over.

SSS stands for Synchronicity Slip Stream and is a cognitive state I was in for six years after a strange acid trip and still experience in waves that feels like God is leading you on a cosmic mission, speaking not in words directly but in synchronicities, or burning bushes in the Bible/white rabbit in the Matrix. It is very disorienting as it leads you to do things other people will think are crazy that you will think are the wisest thing ever, and they are!

Secret passage theory:

https://youtu.be/fVN8JITUjkE

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

In regards to whst has happened to me, my I originally tested positive for HIV, but the story I've concocted cuz I don't know anything about the first years of my life except from what was written in my baby book and home videos is that it was a new test and it tested antibodies that I didn't get and thus a better test proved I was negative as I have been ever since. Yet, my mom found out she had AIDS two months after I was born, and I watched her decay. Horrible.

Her gallbladder exploded when I was five OR six (I have some stange Mandela shit that doesn't add up in my early years revolving around trauma), her nails grew brown n brittle and her face was full of pockmarks, and near the end, an ear infection killed half her face, like a stroke victim.

That's what killed her, and it reduced her to a toddler-like state where she cried and yelled for her mommy. That night is burned into my memory. It was all night. I didn't sleep. My dad tried to soothe her then would come into my room to vent. Late, past midnight, she started called out again. It didn't stop. My dad was nowhere to be found in the house. I went in there. She was naked. She didn't recognize me. I couldn't help her. I failed her as she was dying.

Before she died, I made her proud one last time by winning the fourth grade science fair. I did an experiment with jelly beans about the connection between taste and smell because she lost her sense of taste and smell. She was so happy, with her one living eye and one dead eye; her evil eye as she called it.

I had a nightmare once about finding her grave exhumed and she chased me. I couldn't escape her. I woke my dad up. He couldn't help. He could never help with what I was going through. He cares. He's a lot like his father, in the ways lead poisoning effect a person. Combined with the narcissism of his mother, he doesn't understand how he hurts people and has not developed his empathy well enough to know what a person actually needs to here.

I'm a lot like my parents. I try to be better with the gifts I was given. My mom wasn't a saint, but she was an angel. She saved me. She taught me how to love. That got stunted growing up, repressing my feminine side to be the indestructible turbotank I thought I needed to be to be a man to make my dad proud. My trans experience, though limited, helped that a lot, in that it allowed me to heal and reintigrate that repressed side of myself whilst in SSS, but what also inbided me with my maladaption in life was how I was too scared to ask my first crush out.

I know abandonment issues are involved, being unable to open up and be vulnerable with my feelings out of being mortified of being hurt like that again, and greatly exacerbated by lack of therapy. My mind just freezes. I understand what "fear is the mind killer" means.

Something I worked through and healed with alien/Illuminati help (plus God, I guess) was a hot, sick feeling in my genitals that surged and stuck around. I straight up just ignored that when I was young, but then I became obsessed with it, Theon Greyjoy style, which was compounded by my hate of being ruled by my dick at times.

The guy that caught the guy that shot Lincoln cut his cock n balls off with scissors so he wouldn't be tempted by women. But, the CIA has previously MKULTRA'd my ass around the idea that I need to help people not mutilate their bodies, and I do believe I was wise not being rash for I know now all this shit can be healed through spiritual work, which is WORK.

Something that has changed, sorta, is the symbology of nasty bugs. Cockroaches/silverfish/etc were, as I understand now, the equivalent of the Death tarot card, symbology-wise. It triggered a number of associations. Now, after homelessness, with our friggin' roach motel, they still frighten me when I turn on the light and scatter, but something has shifted in me in regards to that.

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world -1 points 13 hours ago

I get a strawberry after this. A number of kids died in something awful. That tanks my mood. I want to say more. There's just energy. I don't like it. I breathe. I continue practicing mindfulness. But it's there.